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Holding electeds even marginally accountable is bad acktuallllyyy ... This is just so exhausting.

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[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago

Fuckin purity testttt scream the libs.

Like the rules she allegedly broke are so easy to follow. Do the opposite of supporting Israel. Not like the rules are "personally destroy the state of Israel" or "kill Benjamin Netenyahu"

Just don't support giving them more weapons. Don't support making it illegal to be against giving them weapons.

Truly an easy bar to clear for anyone who has any morals. Yes a purity test if you will. Purity tests are necessary and important. I ain't drinking water that isn't some standard of pure ("wow just because there's visible shit in your water you won't drink it what a purity tester") and I won't vote for someone or endorse someone who isn't some standard of pure ("wow just because she doesn't mind a lillll genocide")

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

I love (by which I mean hate) how 'purity test' has just come to refer to having any uncompromising moral position whatsoever.

Again it's one of those cliche situations of the left wants to not kill Palestinians and the right wants to kill all of them and liberals are like, "but you gotta compromise to get what you want ..."

Though hearing the Biden superpacs are focusing almost entirely on digital stuff makes me hope that most of these are just shills, even the downvoting is inconsistent, like the horde missed some comments or misinterpreted some of the commenters to think they're pro-lib when they're not. Very strange either way.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Liberals don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

But Trump would have killed 300k Palestinians and Biden only killed 200k!

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

These people are so v*ush-brained that they think you can have literally any political belief you want and still be a "socialist" so long as you claim to be one and don't voot DrUmPf.

[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

Liberals are unable to comprehend believing in things

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There was one berating the OOP about how, now that they've cut ties with her, the DSA has less power. Like how could they be so stupid as to do that.

Completely missing the point that they never had her 'power' to begin with, I swear people didn't use to be this dumb about politics but here we are ...

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

If your power is soley because you support someone, you don't have power over them. They have power over you.

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

It's politics as team sport. They see this as DSA trading away their star quarterback

[-] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think what they mean by power is prominence. Outside of their association with her there is little the DSA could cite to the layperson to attest to their relevance. I respect them for what they did sticking by their principles, but this will materially make DSA a more niche, underfunded and fringe organization than it was already, though it was already flopping due to mismanagement.

[-] booty@hexbear.net 56 points 2 years ago

Yes, this wouldn't have happened if DSA was a democratic org, but we aren't, the NPC elections makes the Electoral College look good, so we have a bunch of PMC Maoists who don't like electoral politics making calls like this.

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[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago

I'm converting to PMC Maoism.

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Omw to found my own Maoist Private Military Company

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

PMC Maoists

Lmao, it's like bizarro-BMF

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Critical support to BMF in general but uncritical support to BMF in fighting their lib doppelganger

[-] D61@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago
[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

they're mad that the Stalinist and Marxist Caucuses are winning leadership over DSA rn

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

what has aoc actually done other than stump for biden recently

it was cool when she advocated for the green new deal and pushing amazon out of queens, but I think those were both over 5 years ago now

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

File those performative articles of impeachment against Clarence Thomas.

And, "it's what the unions wanted!" about the railroad strike.

But that's the kind of power we lost! How horrible ...

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

She has turned into a centrist that might still give some lip service to the left now and again

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[-] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

The more it is evident that the US empire is on the decline and fascism in the western world is on the upswing the less I care about sucdem liberals and their tailism.
The coming decades are going to be marked with the US losing it and it's political order's grip on countries around the world, as well as climate disaster and the immigration/refugee crisis that will follow it.
The answer to this will inevitably be fascism, but no one on the American "left" seems to be operating under this reality.
Catering only to the backwardness and comfort of the American working class and liberal sensibilities will do nothing to fight this or advance the cause of socialism without principled anti-imperialism.

The sucdems can tut-tut and go "how do you expect to build your movement" but if it's a movement of social chauvinists then it doesn't matter.
Frankly, I don't think there is any timeline where the US is saved from fascism internally as things stand.

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

The sucdems can tut-tut and go "how do you expect to build your movement" but if it's a movement of social chauvinists then it doesn't matter.

geordi-yes

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

If the Nazis are winning you should just let the Nazis into your party and then you’ll be winning too

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You should also back Nazis in the opposition to play exestential chicken with the electorate where they only have a choice between good cop Nazi or Bad Cop Nazi. This is smart and pragmatic strategy that adult politicers do.

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago

The DSA is probably the most relevant socialist political organization in north america, but there's a point C.Derrick Varn makes that I find very astute and is proven by the comments in that reddit post, if the DSA ever adopts a program, regardless of what's in it, it would immediately split

[-] HelltakerHomosexual@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

its potential is quite untapped to many hexbears here, like right now the marxist group is kicking out the social democrat leadership

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Didn’t the post you’re replying to make the point that if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

if that group obtained leadership and exercised power, it would split?

I meant more, if it clarified its direction and goal, it would split because it's big enough and does enough different things (or is a vehicle for people to do different things) that people join it for all types of reasons whether that be tenant organizing or electing progressive democrats, so people would probably leave if the org stopped facilitating one or the other

Still true that it has a lot of potential

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[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm aware, it's something to look forward to but it's bound to result in a lot of soft leftists leaving because it won't be a democrat electing machine

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

The DSA has set back progress for a generation acting like an arm of the DNC. It took the Bernie energy and squandered it, leaving actual leftist parties to starve and rot. fedposting working as intended.

[-] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Technically this was because NYC-DSA requested to withdraw their nomination (which had already been approved) so as not to have a public rift and not because of her atrocious politics. Ultimately probably good for the org to cut ties before she votes for a bill saying Palestinians are subhuman but it's still kinda pathetic.

[-] impartial_fanboy@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Oh it's absolutely pathetic. They should have cut ties with her when she backpedaled her first marginally pro-palestine interview shortly after she got elected (if I'm remembering correctly, could've been before). But the DSA isn't a serious organization so we get this too little too late severing.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Lmao of course it’s over AOC. The Obama for zoomers is going to continue to be a thorn in the side of leftists

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Very recently, a statue of Anne Frank in the Netherlands was vandalized with the word Gaza graffitied on it I'm not kidding look it up. What does a teenage Holocaust victim have to do with what's happening now? She never lived in Israel, she was just an innocent Jewish teenager known for her diary.

Gee IDK what does an innocent teen genocide victim have to do with the current genocide committed by the "state" that uses that genocide as a shield to comit genocide against chiildren?

finkelstein-lambaste if isntrael doesn't want to be compared to the Nazis, they simply need to stop acting like the Nazis.

Your contribution was removed for discouraging voting

Lol holy shit like the phrase "don"t vote for X" is grounds for removal in a post of the DSA removing their support for voting AOCIA.

You wanna walk a narrowline between antisemitism and antizionism in NY of all places lol, I have to imagine you are knowingly committing political suicide

I agree with Einstien's assessment of isntrael. It has become a fascist project. Zionist aims over there are incompatable with the Jewish faith. I stand with my Othrodox Jewish brothers and sisters.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Yes I blame the Republicans for literally proposing policies that want to murder me as a trans person while Biden's DOJ is out there at the Supreme Court right fighting for my right to live.

Wonder why the left has zero solidarity on that

Could have fooled me because there is ZERO JACK SHIT from the Democrats preventing these criminalizations. If there is they certainly aren't publicized anywhere.

thinking-about-it Why aren't transgender people seeing progress with Biden. Hmmmmmm....

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[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

the DSA finally does something good.

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